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April 2011

April 07, 2011

Standing Still at the Tipping Points

Mr. Harley: Your impatience is quite understandable. Klaatu: I'm impatient with stupidity. My people have...

March 2011

March 31, 2011

These Pricking Thorns of Guilt

Can a mother forget her infant, be without tenderness for the child of her womb?...

March 25, 2011

Familiarity, Complacency, and “The Man in the White Suit”

To misquote the old Aesopian saw, familiarity breeds complacency—a truth nowhere more painfully illustrated than...

March 18, 2011

It Takes a Town to “Get Low”

It has been said that there is no such thing as a private sin—that the...

March 11, 2011

Renoir’s Rules Affirm Our Lenten Need for Sacrificial Love

Jean Renoir, son of the famous impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, must have been a remarkable...

March 04, 2011

Me, Myself, & GERTY

This review discusses a number of SPOILERS. Proceed with caution. Duncan Jones is a grateful man—deeply,...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

Film Noir Loves a Tell-Tale Heart

He didn't get away with it, did he? He'll go to the chair, as he...

February 18, 2011

The Road Less Traveled: Reconsidering the Easy Life

Americans love a good con man. Perhaps it is our implicit endorsement of P. T....

February 11, 2011

Divorce, Granted

C. K. Dexter Haven: Sometimes, for your own sake, Red, I think you should've stuck to...

February 04, 2011

Trust and Doubt: Our Endless Dichotomy

A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our shelter He, amid the...

January 2011

January 28, 2011

To Be Pickering in a Henry Higgins World

When George Bernard Shaw first learned of the creative licenses taken in an effort to...

January 21, 2011

Jumpstarting Grown-Up Wonder in Tarsem Singh’s “The Fall”

The Fall, a genre-defying film from the Indian-born director Tarsem Singh, perfectly encapsulates the occasionally awkward...

January 07, 2011

Death, Where Is Thy Sting?

To say that death has become an unimportant part of our cinematic vocabulary would seem...

December 2010

December 26, 2010

Bedford Falls: The Post-Clarence Years

The arrival of the holiday season can mean only one thing for classic film buffs...

December 16, 2010

“Bicycle Thieves” and the Victory of Our Fragility

For a father, there are few moments filled with more deeply conflicting emotions than when...

December 10, 2010

Seeing All the Colors of Paradise

This review discusses a number of SPOILERS. Proceed with caution. "...out of gloom and darkness,...

December 03, 2010

Paved-Over Grace Along “The Road to Perdition”

The artistic gulf between cinematic works and literary ones is so vast, I sometimes marvel...

December 03, 2010

The Specter of Broken Fatherhood in the Films of Wes Anderson

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly...

November 2010

November 26, 2010

Searching Amidst the Bread and Circuses

There are few writers who have written so clearly or so well about the art...

October 2010

October 08, 2010

The Brutality of Grace

Throughout much of her life, Flannery O'Connor struggled against what she perceived as dangerous and...

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